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GREGORY IX (c.1145-1241), Decretals, edited by Raymond of Penyafort (1175-1275), with the Glossa ordinaria, in Latin, DECORATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM [France, late 13th or early 14th century].
325 x 250mm. i + 1 + 111 + i leaves, written space (main text): 195 x 115mm, written space (gloss): c.300 x 195-220mm, annotated by several hands, sometimes very densely (lacking leaves at the beginning, end, and within the text, e.g. the first leaf of Book IV is missing, the gloss sometimes cropped at the bottom edge). Bound in marbled paper over pasteboards with leather spine, matching the previous lot.
CONTENT:
Table of contents, added in the 15th century, listing about 180 headings in 5 Books, laid out in three columns (f.i verso); Gregory IX, Decretals, beginning imperfect in Book II, tit. XVII, cap. II at ‘libito voluntatis [...]’ shortly before the rubric ‘De confessis’ for tit. XVIII, f.1, and ending imperfect in Book IV, tit. XVII, cap. IV at ‘[...] legitimam eiusdem filiam iu[dicetis]’; there is at least one mention by name of ‘Bernardus glossatore’ i.e. Bernard of Parma (f.45), compiler of the Glossa ordinaria..
An indispensable tome for any medieval law student, this is an example of a standard copy of the thirteenth-century collection of papal decretals, with the standard gloss. There is a large square space for a miniature at the beginning of Book III (f.47), but the owner apparently never had the money or inclination to upgrade his practical, functional, textbook into a luxury object.
325 x 250mm. i + 1 + 111 + i leaves, written space (main text): 195 x 115mm, written space (gloss): c.300 x 195-220mm, annotated by several hands, sometimes very densely (lacking leaves at the beginning, end, and within the text, e.g. the first leaf of Book IV is missing, the gloss sometimes cropped at the bottom edge). Bound in marbled paper over pasteboards with leather spine, matching the previous lot.
CONTENT:
Table of contents, added in the 15th century, listing about 180 headings in 5 Books, laid out in three columns (f.i verso); Gregory IX, Decretals, beginning imperfect in Book II, tit. XVII, cap. II at ‘libito voluntatis [...]’ shortly before the rubric ‘De confessis’ for tit. XVIII, f.1, and ending imperfect in Book IV, tit. XVII, cap. IV at ‘[...] legitimam eiusdem filiam iu[dicetis]’; there is at least one mention by name of ‘Bernardus glossatore’ i.e. Bernard of Parma (f.45), compiler of the Glossa ordinaria..
An indispensable tome for any medieval law student, this is an example of a standard copy of the thirteenth-century collection of papal decretals, with the standard gloss. There is a large square space for a miniature at the beginning of Book III (f.47), but the owner apparently never had the money or inclination to upgrade his practical, functional, textbook into a luxury object.
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